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Nb 26 / June 2017

My Success Story with WA

Increase the performance of the blasting process

Increase the performance of the blasting process and reduce blasting cost in a manufacturing plant for articulated haulers

One of our famous Swedish customer manufactures articulated haulers. They previously worked with a distributor of our Spanish sister company until 2013. Now this customer is handled directly by our Swedish subsidiary which is providing them closely a regularly technical and relevant service, supported by the “Consulting and Training” W Abrasives Experts’ team.

The surface preparation process on-site was shot blasting with the Standard steel shot WS390 after welding operations and high pressure air cleaning before wet paint operations. To improve their process quality, the W Abrasives teams have identified some quality issues which were the key point of the customer requirement: this is an ongoing process accompanying them in a saving cost issue.

The results mentioned below are a mix of the constant quality issue and improvement process that allows them to increase the performance level of their blasting operations.

Then, the W Abrasives team has launched the following actions:

On-site process audits by W Abrasives expert followed by trials in Test Center to identify the most relevant product to solve their issues.

Introduction of Premium product Stainium SM318 in the shot blasting machine with continuous technical support of W Abrasives team. STAINIUM® is specially developed for descaling applications when little roughness is required at the end of the process. Especially available in fine grades, STAINIUM® provides a more stable operating mix.

Custom training session for Operators, Maintenance and Management people, with a focus on the actual customer process and how to master it.

Successful hotspot audit conducted with WA Cam and continuous use of WA 3D and dust checks to follow-up the results of the process.

As a result of this combined actions, the customer has:

Reduced cost for maintenance: -6%

Reduced cost for abrasive consumption: -15%

Reduced cost due to increased direct cycle time (blasting): -15%

Reduced cost due to increased indirect cycle time (pre-treatment): -15%

Reduced cost due to improved quality: -42%

The saving calculations comes directly from the client and the total cost savings generated by our support is -18% or € 99.000 per year.

Thanks to the expertise of the W Abrasives team and its added value approach, WINOA is considered as a partner of choice!